About Mizizi Elimu Afrika

Mizizi Elimu Afrika (Mizizi) is an African-led organisation working to ensure all children and youth have the foundations they need to learn, relate and thrive. Mizizi’s work focuses on what matters most when foundations are formed; literacy, numeracy, life skills and values while strengthening the conditions that shape how learning is defined, supported, assessed, and resourced at scale. Mizizi works in collaboration with those closest to children and youth to shift mindsets, improve learning experiences, strengthen relationships, use evidence, and influence policy and resourcing so that those furthest behind are better served.

Job Purpose

To coordinate the design, administration, quality assurance, analysis, and reporting of learning assessments while strengthening data management systems that generate timely, reliable, and actionable insights from assessment data. The coordinator will be in charge of the day-to-day management of tasks related to development of grade-specific benchmarks, development of assessment items and establishment of an assessment item bank. S/he will also be part of the team working to set up a dashboard to ease monitoring of progress against set benchmarks. The coordinator will provide in-house technical leadership on benchmarks, assessments, analysis, capacity development and interpretation of assessment data into actionable insights at the different levels of implementation.

Key responsibilities

A. Assessment Coordination & Administration

• Coordinate the planning, preparation, and implementation of grade-specific, competency-aligned benchmarks,
• Design frameworks and tools to guide the development of formative and summative, assessments.
• Support the development, adaptation, formatting, and administration of assessment tools aligned with competency-based learning frameworks.
• Coordinate assessment logistics, scheduling, and deployment with program teams and partners.
• Ensure standardized assessment administration procedures are followed across implementation sites.
• Maintain assessment inventories, item banks, scoring guides, and administration manuals.
• Lead the establishment of an assessment item bank as part of ongoing efforts to equip educators on formative assessment practices. Support onboarding and orientation of assessment enumerators, field teams, and program staff.
• Support periodic reviews of assessment methodologies and data quality standards.

B. Assessment Data Management & Quality Assurance

• Coordinate the collection, cleaning, validation, transformation, and secure storage of assessment datasets.
• Perform quality checks to identify inconsistencies, missing data, duplicates, and anomalies.
• Maintain clear documentation of data cleaning procedures and quality assurance processes.
• Ensure assessment datasets are complete, well-structured, and analysis-ready.
• Support compliance with data protection, safeguarding, and ethical standards in handling learner information.
• Coordinate analysis of assessment data, reporting and visualization, including development of dashboards and data management systems/platforms to monitor trends in performance across implementation sites.
• Maintain organized digital repositories for assessment tools, datasets, reports, and supporting documentation.
• Develop and maintain metadata, naming conventions, version control, and file indexing systems.

C. Curriculum Feedback & Continuous Improvement

• Synthesize assessment findings to identify curriculum strengths, learning gaps, and instructional priorities.
• Generate insights on an ongoing basis to inform assessment and instructional practices at classroom, school, sub-national and national levels.
• Support documentation of lessons learned and best practices emerging from assessment implementation.

D. AI-Enabled Assessment & Data Innovation

• Utilize AI-supported tools to improve administration of assessments, data processing, coding, , and reporting.
• Support automation of assessment dashboards and reporting workflows where appropriate.
• Promote responsible and ethical use of AI in assessment and management of assessment data.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through digital assessment technologies.

Key Deliverables

• High-quality assessment tools and administration materials.
• Clean, validated, and analysis-ready assessment datasets.
• Updated learner performance dashboards and data visualizations.
• Assessment reports with actionable recommendations.
• Maintained assessment databases, item banks, and evidence repositories.
• Curriculum feedback summaries informed by assessment findings.
• Progress reports and documentation supporting program implementation.

Desirable Skills and Qualifications

Technical Competencies

• Knowledge of competency-based assessment design and learning measurement.
• Strong data management, cleaning, validation, and quality assurance skills.
• Ability to analyse quantitative assessment data and interpret performance trends in assessment data.
• Proficiency in Excel and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
• Familiarity with digital data collection platforms (ODK, KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO, or equivalent).
• Understanding of foundational literacy, numeracy, and learning assessment methodologies.
• Knowledge of data protection, safeguarding, and ethical research standards.
• Experience using AI-assisted data analysis and reporting tools is an added advantage.
• Strong documentation, organization, and report-writing skills.

Behavioral Competencies

• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent planning, coordination, and organizational ability.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Proactive, adaptable, and continuous improvement mindset.
• High ethical standards, integrity, and confidentiality.
• Commitment to child safeguarding and responsible data management.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Educational Measurement, Data Science, Social Sciences or a related field.
• 4–6 years of relevant experience in educational assessment, data management or learning measurement.
• Experience designing and coordinating learning assessments within education or development programs with a focus on foundational learning competencies.
• Experience with data cleaning, analysis, and visualization using Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with competency-based education and foundational learning programs is preferred.
• Experience working with digital data collection systems and statistical software is an added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple assessment activities while maintaining high data quality standards.

• Coordinate the planning, preparation, and implementation of grade-specific, competency-aligned benchmarks,
• Design frameworks and tools to guide the development of formative and summative, assessments.
• Support the development, adaptation, formatting, and administration of assessment tools aligned with competency-based learning frameworks.
• Coordinate assessment logistics, scheduling, and deployment with program teams and partners.
• Ensure standardized assessment administration procedures are followed across implementation sites.
• Maintain assessment inventories, item banks, scoring guides, and administration manuals.
• Lead the establishment of an assessment item bank as part of ongoing efforts to equip educators on formative assessment practices. Support onboarding and orientation of assessment enumerators, field teams, and program staff.
• Support periodic reviews of assessment methodologies and data quality standards.
• Coordinate the collection, cleaning, validation, transformation, and secure storage of assessment datasets.
• Perform quality checks to identify inconsistencies, missing data, duplicates, and anomalies.
• Maintain clear documentation of data cleaning procedures and quality assurance processes.
• Ensure assessment datasets are complete, well-structured, and analysis-ready.
• Support compliance with data protection, safeguarding, and ethical standards in handling learner information.
• Coordinate analysis of assessment data, reporting and visualization, including development of dashboards and data management systems/platforms to monitor trends in performance across implementation sites.
• Maintain organized digital repositories for assessment tools, datasets, reports, and supporting documentation.
• Develop and maintain metadata, naming conventions, version control, and file indexing systems.
• Synthesize assessment findings to identify curriculum strengths, learning gaps, and instructional priorities.
• Generate insights on an ongoing basis to inform assessment and instructional practices at classroom, school, sub-national and national levels.
• Support documentation of lessons learned and best practices emerging from assessment implementation.
• Utilize AI-supported tools to improve administration of assessments, data processing, coding, , and reporting.
• Support automation of assessment dashboards and reporting workflows where appropriate.
• Promote responsible and ethical use of AI in assessment and management of assessment data.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through digital assessment technologies.

• Knowledge of competency-based assessment design and learning measurement.
• Strong data management, cleaning, validation, and quality assurance skills.
• Ability to analyse quantitative assessment data and interpret performance trends in assessment data.
• Proficiency in Excel and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
• Familiarity with digital data collection platforms (ODK, KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO, or equivalent).
• Understanding of foundational literacy, numeracy, and learning assessment methodologies.
• Knowledge of data protection, safeguarding, and ethical research standards.
• Experience using AI-assisted data analysis and reporting tools is an added advantage.
• Strong documentation, organization, and report-writing skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent planning, coordination, and organizational ability.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Proactive, adaptable, and continuous improvement mindset.
• High ethical standards, integrity, and confidentiality.
• Commitment to child safeguarding and responsible data management.

• Bachelor's degree in Educational Measurement, Data Science, Social Sciences or a related field.
• 4–6 years of relevant experience in educational assessment, data management or learning measurement.
• Experience designing and coordinating learning assessments within education or development programs with a focus on foundational learning competencies.
• Experience with data cleaning, analysis, and visualization using Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with competency-based education and foundational learning programs is preferred.
• Experience working with digital data collection systems and statistical software is an added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple assessment activities while maintaining high data quality standards.